Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, some of the panelists at the Fund meeting did make some valid points. We agree that basic problems such as the homeless, littering and the denizens of the Pit require attention. By dealing with these issues, the Fund could actually make itself useful...
...most panelists agreed that some basic problems--sixth as the homeless, trash, and the condition of "the pit"--need to be addressed. Panelist Richard Getz, for example, mentioned a coupon program to assist penhandlers...
...entire nation was headed towards Apocalypse and Newt Gingrich, long barbed tail protruding from a Brooks Brothers suit, one hand grasping a pitchfork, the other gesticulating in rhythm with his wild invective, was greeting us at the pit of hell. And then, as quickly as it had come, the vision was gone. Nervously, I assured myself that I had let my mind exaggerate the case...
Armey's flair for pit-bull partisanship has catapulted him from obscurity to the upper ranks of the new Republican regime on Capitol Hill. Nine years ago, as a freshman Congressman, he was dismissed by the Almanac of American Politics as "hardly likely to be a power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that...
...finals of the 126-pound division pit two Crimson grapplers, Noonan and freshman Dustin DeNunzio, against each other...